This book introduces the core concepts of the shock wave physics of
condensed matter, taking a continuum mechanics approach to examine
liquids and isotropic solids. The text primarily focuses on
one-dimensional uniaxial compression in order to show the key
features of condensed matter's response to shock wave loading. The
first four chapters are specifically designed to quickly
familiarize physical scientists and engineers with how shock waves
interact with other shock waves or material boundaries, as well as
to allow readers to better understand shock wave literature, use
basic data analysis techniques, and design simple 1-D shock wave
experiments. This is achieved by first presenting the steady
one-dimensional strain conservation laws using shock wave impedance
matching, which insures conservation of mass, momentum and energy.
Here, the initial emphasis is on the meaning of shock wave and mass
velocities in a laboratory coordinate system. An overview of basic
experimental techniques for measuring pressure, shock velocity,
mass velocity, compression and internal energy of steady 1-D shock
waves is then presented. In the second part of the book, more
advanced topics are progressively introduced: thermodynamic
surfaces are used to describe equilibrium flow behavior,
first-order Maxwell solid models are used to describe
time-dependent flow behavior, descriptions of detonation shock
waves in ideal and non-ideal explosives are provided, and lastly, a
select group of current issues in shock wave physics are discussed
in the final chapter.
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